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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

laptop bag

I made myself a new laptop bag over the weekend. And, to my husband and kids' surprise it did not involve absolutely any colorful patchwork at all! They really were surprised, my oldest daughter even said she had no idea I could make a bag like that - I decided to take this remark as a compliment :)

From the very beginning I decided to go with very clean, sort of modern design and I think it was a success. I used home decor weight fabric for the exterior of the bag. I now want to make tons and tons more striped bags and totes.

I wanted to make sure the bag was nicely padded to protect my laptop so I decided to use Soft and Stable between the exterior and lining layers and it worked like a charm.

A zipper closure was a must, of course. Plus a tiny teapot zipper pull just because :)

What makes this bag for me though, is all these little details of fun hardware, webbing handles,

and this fantastic hand made leather tag. Sweet, isn't it?

You can probably tell I really like this bag, right? Well yes I do. But, do you want to hear something totally crazy? I measured wrong and it DOES NOT FIT my laptop :(

Yes, yes things like that happen to me quite often as I dislike prep work and measuring very much, I always want to get to sewing as soon as possible. Maybe one of these days I will learn my lesson. Until then I will simply make another bag (with correct dimensions this time - I hope) and find some other use for this snazzy, not quite the right size bag.

38 comments:

Oh what a shame it doesn't fit! But it is totally lovely! I'm a lot like you not wanting to waste time with the calculations and just got on with the fun sewing part! Looking forward to seeing Laptop bag mark 2! Jxo

ouch.. that's hurt !! anyway, need smaller size of laptop maybe .. so hope your husband will read this and he will like to buy a new laptop for mother's day present which fit into the bag .. I love your fabric choice, thou.. so pretty

I've done the very same thing: made the bag, found the measurements were off...so disappointing. But your bag is gorgeous, and if you want to post a tutorial, I will be first in line to make one. Beautiful job, Svetlana!!

I would love a tutorial....but have to admit I love your bag enough to buy a pattern . Please do make a pattern....and share it with all your many fans. Add instructions for "how to measure correctly!" Thanks so much for the most inspiring photos of your beautiful, colorful bag.....The best I've seen in a while! :)